Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is the Getty-led exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles -- all showcased at more than museums and other institutions throughout Southern California. We’re collecting all of our coverage on exhibitions, performances and other events here, so keeping checking back for the latest.
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2Every April, thousands of Mexicans flock to the grave of Pedro Infante.
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3Café Tacvba has zigged and zagged along the fringes of Latin rock for so long that it’s astonishing to think there’s any new territory to explore.
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5Walk into “Video Art in Latin America” at LAXART and you’ll wonder: Why does it smell like rotten bananas in here?
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6It is a small work, rather mystical: a faceless human figure, his head surrounded by an aura, appears to rise off of a couch.
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22Enter the downtown L.A. loft of painter Carlos Almaraz in the 1980s, and you’d first notice the artist himself, warm and charismatic, in black beard and paint-spattered overalls.
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23Free admission: It’s coming for one day to more than 50 museums across Southern California as part of the upcoming Pacific Standard Time exhibitions.
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24In the fall, more than 60 Southern California museums and other cultural institutions will come together to produce exhibitions and events related to Latin American and Latino art.
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26Carlos Cruz-Diez, the Venezuelan artist known for works that combine color, form and light in mind-boggling ways, will have an installation on the streets outside the Broad museum in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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